03689cam a2200493 4500 238142705 TxAuBib 20140808120000.0 120717s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780345526632 electronic bk. 0345526635 electronic bk. B005723LES Amazon fa61f903-80f3-43da-8c8d-bb14a565825d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 209156 209156 209156 640161 OverDrive (Product ID) (OCoLC)785573548 TLC TLC TxAuBib Kosmatka, Ted. The games [Bridges eBook] / Ted Kosmatka. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2012. 1 online resource. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2762kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Electronic book. "This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silas's boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten. The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computer's cold logic. Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia Joao. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, and--most disquietingly--intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. New York Random House Publishing Group 2012 Available via World Wide Web. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-03-03 20:00:02. Imported from MARC file. Gladiators Fiction. Monsters Fiction. Genetic engineering Fiction. Science Societies, etc Fiction. Science fiction. Electronic books. OverDrive, Inc. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=FA61F903-80F3-43DA-8C8D-BB14A565825D https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FA61F903-80F3-43DA-8C8D-BB14A565825D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/FA6/1F9/03/Games9780345526632.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/FA6/1F9/03/Games9780345526632.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/FA6/1F9/03/Games9780345526632.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read)